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Animals News tagged with zoos

Super-Sized Treadmill Instead of Retirement for Ailing Elephant?
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, sanctuary, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

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- 1 hour ago - blog.peta.org
PETA and ZooCheck have been campaigning to convince officials at the Edmonton Zoo, deemed Canada's worst zoo for elephants by African elephant biologist Winnie Kiiru, to release its sole pachyderm prisoner, Lucy, to a sanctuary. We've reasoned with zoo
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City Now Warns of Runaway Lynx
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, lynx, runaway, zoos, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 21 hours ago - ostsee-zeitung.de
The lynx has not been captured and has since been prey. Meanwhile, it seems unlikely that the small cat could be recaptured.
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Court Decides In Favour Of WDCS In Case Against Nuremburg
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, zoos, dolphins, protection )

Cher
- 2 days ago - wdcs.org
On 11th November 2009, the Administrative Court at Ansbach in Bavaria, Germany, accepted a motion by WDCS against the City of Nuremberg to obtain full access to information concerning the handling and display of dolphins at Nuremberg Zoo. WDCS's motion
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Elephants Don't Belong in Zoos: Central Zoo Authority
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, India, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 2 days ago - beta.thehindu.com
As per an order from the Central Zoo Authority (CZA) of India, "elephants have been banned from zoo collection throughout the country with immediate effect". The order stipulates that all elephants kept at zoos should be immediately relocated to elephant
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San Antonio Zoo Is No Place For Queenie ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 5 days ago - all-creatures.org
Please let the USDA know that any decision to send Queenie to the San Antonio Zoo, or any other zoo with a cramped and unnatural elephant exhibit, will be met with widespread public outrage. After all she's been through, Queenie deserves to live her
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No More Elephants in India's Circuses and Zoos
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, India, environment, protection, suffering, wildlife )

Cher
- 7 days ago - animalrights.change.org
In Defense of Animals has just sent out word of good news for elephants in India. Recognizing that zoos and circuses can't possibly, even in the best of circumstances, meet these animals' needs, the Central Zoo Authority has ordered the release of 140
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Confinement of Elephants to Zoos Banned in India
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, captivity, banned, India, zoos, environment, protection, wildlife )

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- 9 days ago - blog.peta.org
That's right. India, which is home to an estimated 23,900 to 32,900 wild elephants, will no longer allow its most prominent national symbol--the elephant--to be imprisoned in zoos. The move by India's Central Zoo Authority (CZA) comes after years of
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MAKING AN ANIMAL WELFARE DRAMA OUT OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, environment, polar bears, zoos, habitat, protection, wildlife )

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- 10 days ago - bornfree.org.uk
While the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland may have finally done the right thing by moving Mercedes from Edinburgh Zoo to the Highland Wildlife Park, they are way off the mark with their plans to bring in more polar bears.
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NEW REPORT REVEALS DEPRIVATION AND SUFFERING OF MANILA ZOO'S ELEPHANT
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, suffering, protection, environment, wildanimals )

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- 10 days ago - petaasiapacific.com
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia -- an affiliate of PETA US, the largest animal rights group in the world, which has more than 2 million members and supporters -- has released a new report on Vishwamali ("Mali" for short),
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Seoul Asks Russia to Donate Siberian Tigers
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, donations, breeding, zoos, environment, protection, endangered, extinction, habitat, wildlife, wildanimals )

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- 11 days ago - koreaherald.co.kr
The request was made in a bid to prevent possible genetic problems stemming from inbreeding among some 20 tigers, which have come from the United States or North Korea and are currently bred in the Seoul Zoo.
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Zoo Groped on to Young Lynx
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, lynx, runaway, zoos, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

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- 11 days ago - ostsee-zeitung.de
The young runaway from the zoo Wismar lynx lady could not yet be recovered. Now the citizens to help in the search. Numerous calls were received with indications already.
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New Amur Tiger Cub Introduced At Zoo
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, cub, zoos, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

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- 14 days ago - ksfy.com
A recent addition at the Great Plains Zoo is ready to meet you. Callie is a 30lbs Amur Tiger born at the zoo about 3 months ago. Today was her first visit to the big cats exhibit. Callie is the only surviving cub from a litter of six.
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Your Morning Adorable: Asian Elephant Calf Goes for a Swim at Australia's Taronga Zoo
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephants, zoos, calf, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 15 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
At Australia's Taronga Zoo, the birth of an Asian elephant calf this summer was a cause for celebration. The calf, a male, was the first of his species to be born in an Australian zoo.
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Female Lion Leaving New Brunswick Zoo After She Attacks Unwilling Mate
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, lions, zoos, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 16 days ago - google.com
There's no jungle love in the lion enclosure at New Brunswick's Magnetic Hill Zoo, and that's left an older lioness so frustrated and angry she has resorted to violence.
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Tiger Comes Out to Play
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tigers, zoos, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, endangered, extinction )

Cher
- 17 days ago - belfasttelegraph.co.uk
The young male tiger, from Chessington Zoo, is 19-months-old and since the initiation of the global tiger studbook in 1967, is the first tiger to live in Belfast Zoo as part of a European breeding programme.
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